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While delivering year-end donation tax summaries to donors before January 31st is a crucial part of your role, it’s not just a compliance step—it’s a golden opportunity to reconnect and thank your donors for their contributions and remind them of their incredible impact through your mission. But the engagement doesn’t stop there.
You can read the summary of how the free agent community came together to self-organize and create a public action as well as a full report of the lessons learned and reflections on the #TakeBackThePink campaign in this public google doc. Observations & Reflections. 10 Lessons from Community-Driven Organizing.
As a trainer, I create two agendas – a participant agenda which is a summary and a more detailed facilitator’s agenda. There is always a dance between too much detail and specific times vs less detail. Overnight Reflection. What I think is the magic is the use of “overnight reflection.”
Agolo is making a specialty of it, however, using intelligent summaries to get a foot in the door with feds — and raise a couple million to keep building, too. And an early version of the company’s summary tech was used in combination with the OSTP’s existing search stack to make the results better. Image Credits: Agolo.
I pulled together a curated summary of the tweets and resources on Storify that you can view here. I promised folks that I would share a summary blog post with links, questions, and resources. About the the same time, I discovered that mindmap and used in a post to share my plan.
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 April 8, 2007 As I write this, I’m hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home.
Early planning allows you to: Prepare session materials that reflect professionalism and are printed ahead of time. Summary: Early planning = big impact A well-planned strategic planning session can rejuvenate your team, strengthen your nonprofits vision, and drive meaningful progress. Confirm travel and accommodations without hiccups.
As 2023 has drawn to a close, tax season looms on the horizon, and we nonprofits gear up for a unique opportunity—issuing tax summaries to our donors. Bloomerang refers to them as tax summaries—which they are—but they also summarize each donor’s cumulative giving. What are tax summaries? Offering a donor survey would be advised.
” Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: How Does Your Mission Connect to the Funder’s Interest? Give yourself time to write, review, and revise multiple drafts to ensure they reflect your organization’s best work. Know your prospective funder in depth! Start working on your narrative early.
Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. Over at the NTEN blog, you can read reflections from nonprofits that are participating in America's Giving Challenge. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007.
To catch up, read the summary here and to read the most recent thoughts -- see Gavin's newest post here and Emily's reflections here. Bev Traynor builds on the list here and reflects on how it isn't quite a yes or not question. She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments.
Photo by Powerbooktrance from flickr with creative commons " by " license It's been a very quiet week in the NpTech Tag Stream, providing a little quiet time for reflection on year-end posts as well as scan for the best of resources, predictions, and resolutions for 2007. To read more of the NpTechTag Summary, check it out here.
Does this reflect our organization’s voice and values? Don’t just accept AI suggestions blindly. Always ask yourself: Does this align with what I know about the donor? Would I say this in a face-to-face conversation? And if the answer isn’t yes, let AI know.
Once you set one up, Google will send you an email summary of recent articles and other Internet activity that mention that keyword. You can change the settings to reflect how often you want notifications sent to you, what language you prefer, which specific locations to monitor, and what types of content you want to search.
It makes it easy and convenient for your donors to manage their recurring donations, download summaries, support your causes, and more The portal is directly connected to your Bloomerang donor management, so you and your donors always have the most up-to-date information. giving your donors what they want, when they want it.
Last week was the first week of our workshop as laboratory and Brownyn offered her meta reflections here and Sus Nyrop shared her thoughts here and Nancy White here. The participants will write up some more formal reflections towards the end of this week. Having a facilitator - the summaries helped make the tag stream accessible.
The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? As we move into 2008, one last reflection, what are you lessons learned about Nonprofits and Social Media ? How to make these summaries more useful to you all?
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I'm looking forward to reading the reflections next week. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. The summaries are released on cc 2.5 The Summit runs until Saturday and the correspondent reports and notes are being filed. You can find the columns here: [link].
With the end of one year and the start of another, it’s a good time to reflect and renew. I enjoy reading your summaries of recent times. Donna Coles reflects on Workout Wednesday using a viz. For some people, the reflections are about endings (and new beginnings). 2021: A Reflection. Donna Coles , Donna + DataViz.
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Leverage Reports to Understand Your Year-End Impact As the year winds down, its a great time to reflect on what worked and what didnt. What you can do: Export transaction histories and financial summaries directly from Flipcause. Generating detailed reports can provide valuable insights to guide your planning for the next year.
Most of all, I want to master the ability to switch between connectedness and solitude. I will continue to practice and explore different ways to use visuals to aid reflection, including data visualization, visual thinking, structured frameworks, graphic facilitation, and more. Sense: Sensing is making sense of the information.
Excellent summary posts. Lisa Stone 's post setting the context for the debate. Danah Boyd One issue came up over the fact that women don't network. Well, that's bullshit. Actually, women are traditionally the maintainers of domestic social networks. They tend to network more than men. The gender difference concerns the style of networking.
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You can watch the video here as well as the human curated resources shared and a Copilot created summary transcript here. Below is my fully human-generated reflection. I have personally found this use case extremely helpful to have a one-click summary of really long threads transformed into actionable steps w/ links to source email.)
And they frequently study your project budget and look back at the narrative (the main written part of the grant proposal) and the executive summary (the short summary of the proposal and budget that comes first) to see that they are all aligned. Inconsistencies, no matter how small, can be a red flag for funders.
" (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.
" and reflecting on a recent article in Wired. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Michelle Murrain is curbing her time on "walled gardens " like LinkedIn and Facebook while pondering the question, " How Open Is Facebook, Really?
Note from Beth: Yesterday, I was the honored guest at a Google Hangout hosted by the Packard Foundation to celebrate the work that I have done over the last five years as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. It was wonderful to see colleagues in the room and online, reflect on the work, and talk about next steps.
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The question forced me to reflect on my experience last summer. I had mentioned the NpTech Tag Summary - and how practicing that every week makes you better at it. One of my best sources is, of course, Andy Carvin's digital divide category on his blog. WOW2 hosts immediately made the connection to micro blogging or micro media making.
Marcelo asked the audience to reflect on what inspires them and to write it down on a card that was placed on their seats. He excited the stage while people reflected on their personal inspiration from their work. A good summary of my talk can be found in this blog post from Civil Society Fundraising and this summary.
Blogging as personal discovery and connected conversation with colleagues Writing a blog regularly provides a vehicle for personal reflection and learning about your practice that can be easily shared with professional colleagues via a connected conversation. Deborah Finn was at both events and blogged about the latter here.
Here's a few reflections from people in the room. In summary, I feel strongly that there is a lot of potential here and worth exploring. Last night's event brought back memories for me - of what it was like 13 years ago doing demonstrations at nonprofit conferences about online communities for arts organizations.
Finally, allocating time for a reflection about what worked, what didn’t based on an analysis of the data is critical. Here’s a summary of 25 SMART social media objectives from Leveraging Social Media project with arts organizations. What is your organization’s SMART social media objectives? How did you determine it?
Peter Dietz reflects on the recent launch of Causes on Facebook and digital bumper stickers on Linked In and wonders how other fundraising platforms will respond? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Pulling my hair out! Any suggestions?
On July 28th, I'll feature links and summaries to some of the best submissions. I hope you'll submit your post for consideration! Whether I'm talking with a nonprofit staffer, or a fellow nonprofit consultant, the topic of time always comes up.
The task output is the desired outcome for the target tasks, e.g., a screen summary or an answer to a user question. They can generate more accurate summaries than the Screen2Words benchmark model that we previously introduced using UI-specific text, as highlighted in the colored text and boxes below.
We subscribe to this idea that if you are organized within, your influence is reflected outside of your organization. These are just the summary and highlights! The post Managing eLearning Podcast: Episode 6 Summary & Highlights appeared first on Web Courseworks. As your organization evolves, so will your impact.”.
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